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Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.

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  In the future, humans will not find bugs in model-produced code in reasonable time and will only review system composition, not via PRs or line-by-line review.

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  in the future, humans won’t find a bug or an issue with the code produced by a model, at least not in a reasonable time. Humans will only review the system and its composition, but it won’t be in PRs and it won’t be by looking through every line of the code.

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Physician focused on longevity; wrote Outlive and hosts The Drive.

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  Sleep loss degrades body composition, metabolism and mood at once, which is the reason to protect sleep even without a mortality number.

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  Sleep is a lever on body composition, metabolism, and mood, and deprivation pulls in the wrong direction across nearly every axis at once.

  Does losing sleep mean losing lifespan?peterattiamd.com

Mathematician and maker of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel, which explains mathematics through animation. Creator of the open-source Manim animation library and founder of the Summer of Math Exposition.

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  Group theory took a hundred years to travel from one man's hunch to something the mathematical community agreed was good, passing through many heads on the way.

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  what makes the GAWA theory such an interesting example is you have um literally this 100-year segment of like an idea that like flows through many different people's heads before it like settles into something that the math community like agrees is good.

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Music critic of The New Yorker since 1996 and author of The Rest Is Noise, Listen to This and Wagnerism.

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  Contemporary composition is as vital as ever.

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  Although the musical scene exhilarates me more than ever - contemporary composition is eternally vital - I wouldn't want to overstay my welcome.

  Personal notetherestisnoise.com

Co-founder of Ethereum. Publishes long essays on mechanism design, governance and what cryptography is for, and returns to earlier positions to say which parts they no longer hold.

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  llama-server

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  As it turned out, ollama was not able to fit Qwen3.5:35B onto my GPU, but llama-server could. Hence, from that day forward, I resolved to cease being a cave-dwelling noob, and use llama-server (via llama-swap to make model swapping easier).

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Writer of MacSparky and author of the MacSparky Field Guides on Apple productivity software. A lawyer for 30 years before going full-time on the site, he co-hosts the Mac Power Users and Focused podcasts.

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  Superhuman

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  I can say without a doubt that Superhuman is the best tool I’ve ever used to work through email quickly. There’s no single reason. The keyboard shortcuts are lightning fast. The composition tools avoid friction. Its auto-sorting is excellent. I’m just scratching the surface of the full feature set. But Superhuman comes with a significant cost at $30 a month.

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Writer and academic, author of The Cult of Smart and How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement; writes a daily newsletter on politics, education and culture.

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  Who is in a school predicts its results better than anything about its teaching, its teachers or its methods.

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  Once again, the composition of the student body is always more powerful a predictor than any identifiable pedagogical, school, or teacher variable.

  There Are No Miracles in Educationfreddiedeboer.substack.com

Founder and chief executive of Superhuman, the email client; previously founder of Rapportive, which he sold to LinkedIn; a professional game designer before that.

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  Ignore both the users who love your product and the ones who are indifferent to it; the only feedback that raises product-market fit comes from the somewhat disappointed.

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  And the trick here is not to act too much on the feedback that the very disappointed people are giving you because they already love your product. Also, not to act at all really on the feedback that the not disappointed people are giving you because they're so far from loving your product that they are essentially a lost cause. but to focus on the segment of the somewhat disappointed people.

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Engineer and writer on machine-learning systems; author of Designing Machine Learning Systems and AI Engineering. "I work to bring AI into production. I write about AI system design."

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  When a model behaves unreliably, the better fix is to switch models rather than repeatedly sample it to work around the inconsistency

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  The optimal thing to do with a fickle model, however, is to swap it out for another.

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Economist; former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund.

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  Central bank purchases of government bonds are not bailouts and do not automatically cause inflation, since they only change the composition of the consolidated government's liabilities, not their total.

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  Governments have not been bailed out by their central banks. As I discussed earlier, central bank intervention does not reduce the overall liabilities of the consolidated government, just their composition. And it does not automatically lead to more inflation: It increases the size of the balance sheet of the central bank, but it does not increase the size of the non-interest-paying money stock.

  Fiscal Policy under Low Interest Ratesdirect.mit.edu